Talk by Chaohua Wang, UCLA In 2007, Gloria Davies published a heavy book, entitled Worrying about China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry (Harvard UP). Her analysis traces the “worrying” mentality (youhuan yishi) back to Confucian literati traditions centuries old, but is primarily focused on the twentieth century, especially modern intellectual traditions since the May Fourth period. More than a decade later, do Chinese intellectual discourses still overwhelmingly dwell on “worrying” about China? Examining major intellectual trends against their socio-political environment in the past ten to twenty years, this study finds that, along with China’s rise to an economic superpower status in the world, as well as with increasingly heavy-handed managing of the Communist Party, intellectual discourses have strayed away from the once conventional position of “worrying about China” into various new directions. In the eve of the centennial of the May Fourth movement of popular protest in 1919, the new trends indicate declining importance of intellectuals in public life and potential social crisis that may revive public demand of intellectual guidance in a near future.

ChaoHua Wang, an independent scholar visiting UCLA as a guest lecturer, earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA, with a focus on modern intellectual history of the late Qing and early Republican periods. Her research interest also covers modern and contemporary Chinese literature, as well as contemporary intellectual life and political development in P.R. China, China’s Hong Kong SAR, and ROC Taiwan. She is currently working on an essay collection of contemporary Chinese intellectual life.Contact: china@international.ucla.edu

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Dear Colleague, we apologize for any unintentional crossposting. Herewith please find enclosed the announcement of the International School on Informatics and Dynamics in Complex Networks to be held at the University of Catania, October 15-19, 2018. We resend it since the application submission deadline has been extended to May, 20, 2018. The school is organized by the Department of Electrical Electronics and Computer Science of the University of Catania and the Cometa Consortium, with the technical sponsorship of SICC. It consists of a series of lectures given by leading scientists in the field, aiming at providing a comprehensive treatment from background material to advanced results. The school is specially directed to PhD students and young researchers interested to the diverse aspects of the theory and applications of complex networks in science and engineering. Slots for presentations by the participants are also scheduled with an award to the best presentation. The school aims at encouraging cross-disciplinary discussions between participants and speakers and start new joint researches. Topics of the school are: structure of networks, multilayer networks, brain networks, dynamics of networks, financial networks, applications. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Mauricio Barahona, Imperial College London Mario Chavez, CNRS Paris Manlio De Domenico, FBK Trento Ernesto Estrada, Univ. of Strathclyde Glasgow Vito Latora, Queen Mary University of London Rosario N. Mantegna, Univ. of Palermo For more information and applications, please visit: http://isidcn.dieei.unict.it/

The Body as a Means for Political Mobilization: Portrait Photo between Journalism and Propaganda, Minli Pao ''''s covering of the assassination of Song Jiaoren as Case

Tuesday, May 08, 20184:00 PM - 5:30 PMBunche Hall 10383, UCLA

Talk by Gu Zheng, Fudan UniversitySong Jiaoren (Sung Chiao-jen,1882-1913) was a revolutionist and the founder of the Kuomintang (KMT).He was assassinated in March of 1913 in Shanghai after his leading KMT to victory in China’s first democratic election.

This talk will investigate how the members of KMT who owned Minli Pao(民立报)published in Shanghai as both mouthpiece of the revolutionary party and mass media produce and use the images of Song’s corpse for the purpose of mibilizing the mass to.protest the assassination.This talk will try to explore portrait photo’s function and practice between propaganda and journalism and its usage as a means of visual mobilization from three aspects of production, distribution and consumption in the Republican Shanghai.

Language as an instrument of social reform in Modern China since the late 19th century

Talk by Ping Chen, University of QueenslandAs well as being a medium of cognitive and conceptual development, and the most important means of communication, language may also serve as a powerful instrument of social reform. This utilitarian role has been brought into full play in Modern China since the late 19th century at a scale hardly paralleled elsewhere. One of the major goals of the social and linguistic reform from the outset was unification of speech and writing (言文合一). This lecture will explore the gamut of historical, social, political and linguistic factors underlying major proposals and practice toward that goal, and discuss their implications on Chinese language education in general and teaching Chinese as a second language in particular.

Indigenous Knowledge, Taiwan: Comparative and Relational Perspectives

Friday, May 11 - Saturday, May 12314 Royce Hall, UCLA

UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative ConferenceThis conference aims to engender transnational conversations about indigenous knowledge, with Taiwan as its comparative pivot and relational node. Setting discussions on indigenous knowledge and settler colonialism in Taiwan in dialogue with those in the United States, Okinawa, and the Philippines, this conference explores some initial and necessarily broad questions: What is indigenous knowledge and how is it defined in different places? How is indigenous knowledge relevant to such taxonomies as philosophy, epistemology, ontology, or cosmology? How has it been suppressed and/or erased, and how has it transformed and grown over time? What is being preserved, lost, and strengthened, and what might be the politics and poetics of preservation, loss, transformation, and growth? How have settler colonizers perceived, represented, and usurped indigenous knowledge? What imaginary of the future does indigenous knowledge present? How is indigenous knowledge a resource for all?

In Taiwan, the indigenous Austronesian peoples have been subjected to settler colonialism by waves of Han people from China for over three centuries, during which other colonial regimes came and went, including the Dutch Formosa in southern Taiwan (1642-1662), the Spanish Formosa in northern Taiwan (1646-1662), and Japanese colonial rule (1895-1945). For Austronesians, as is the case for all indigenous peoples living …

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